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Posts tagged Campo dei Fiori

1 minute: pigeons in Rome

In experimenting with the Flip video camera, I’ve started shooting 1 minute clips of Rome. No editing. No panning. No movement other than the subject. And only natural, local sound.
I came across these pigeons in Campo dei Fiori — after the fruit and vegetable vendors had left, but before any serous clean-up had begun. [...]

Zucca: looks like pumpkin, tastes like pumpkin

Yesterday I snapped these photos when I went over to Campo dei Fiori to buy a thick wedge of zucca for L.  She used it to make a hearty (and colorful) pumpkin sauce that we ate over a pile of steaming penne last night.
It was a pleasant change from all the tomato-based sauces I’d been [...]